Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun [HD VIDEO]
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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.
This movie shows the ejection from a variety of viewpoints as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Credit: NASA/GSFC
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Nasaw views, Michael Fumarolo, TheVRChris, Bonnetmaker, and 147 other people added this video to their favorites.
Nasaw views (9 months ago | reply)
never to be under estimated.....the power of our sun!
Reconstructing Light (9 months ago | reply)
Incredible!!!!!!!!!
Artemas Liu (9 months ago | reply)
Wow, Is too amazing!!
█ fo112 █ (9 months ago | reply)
Nice
suardigabriele (9 months ago | reply)
amazing !
thankyou for share
shutterbroke (9 months ago | reply)
Ditto, ditto!!
Derek_Custer (9 months ago | reply)
Superb.
AnnWhit (9 months ago | reply)
Fantastic info thankyou!!!!!
Cliff's Photography, Thank you for all visits!! (9 months ago | reply)
Stunning!!
Σταύρος (9 months ago | reply)
Instant suntan ...:)
@ires (9 months ago | reply)
stunning, indeed!!!!
Creative Photography by Irene OFF/ON (9 months ago | reply)
thanks for sharing this truly awesome image with us!!
rais58 (8 months ago | reply)
awesome!
Uncle-N (8 months ago | reply)
Dangerous star!
Rached MILADI- Exposition collective... (8 months ago | reply)
impressionnant!
pour le lien sur FB
merci
mikl.b (8 months ago | reply)
Cette galerie est magnifique.
for Neil.
♫ Look-aa ♪ (8 months ago | reply)
Who chose the soundtrack?
That's pretty lame and ruins a magnificent video
grammardog (8 months ago | reply)
Glorious!
Pyrrhos (8 months ago | reply)
WoW !
muufi (8 months ago | reply)
simplemente magnífico. Un día podremos oírlo...
DiamantThomy (8 months ago | reply)
Nice
Wsarnak (8 months ago | reply)
Great :P
ArlindoCarvalho (8 months ago | reply)
Sensational. Congratulations and thank you for sharing this.
mylohc (8 months ago | reply)
fantastic
Andrés Ameglio (8 months ago | reply)
good music
carlisledeirdra (8 months ago | reply)
that's so awesome !
marinela 2008 (8 months ago | reply)
Splendid view and incredible capture !
marinela 2008 (8 months ago | reply)
Congrats !
tropical_cpl (8 months ago | reply)
If this one had been directed at Earth, would we have been a giant "hushpuppy"?
tigerpower.t21 (8 months ago | reply)
You are looking at beauty in it's 'truest' form, please respect what you call 'The Sun'. Xx
chaudhary.alam (8 months ago | reply)
who made the sun ?
Lightning Lee (6 months ago | reply)
wow! what else can u say.
SLR Enthusiast (6 months ago | reply)
Amazing!!
Ptoke (5 months ago | reply)
truly amazing!
gwhat79 (5 months ago | reply)
I'm pissed why won't you let us save this beautiful photo?